14K Sai Shing Tong
14K may refer to: * 14K Triad, a Chinese criminal organization * Gnome-Rhône 14K, an aircraft engine of the 1920s and 1930s * 14K, another term for a Fourteener mountain peak (above 14,000 feet) of the Rocky Mountains in western North America. * 14K (Death Race), a fictional character in the ''Death Race'' film series. See also *Carat (purity) The fineness of a precious metal object (coin, bar, jewelry, etc.) represents the weight of ''fine metal'' therein, in proportion to the total weight which includes alloying base metals and any impurities. Alloy metals are added to increase hardn ...

14K Triad
The 14K (十四K) is a triad group based in Hong Kong but active internationally. It is the second largest triad group in the world with around 20,000 members split into thirty subgroups. They are the main rival of the Sun Yee On, which is the largest triad. Criminal focus The 14K is responsible for large-scale drug trafficking around the world, most of it heroin and opium from China or Southeast Asia. This is their primary business in terms of generating income, but they are also involved in illegal gambling, loan sharking, money laundering, contract murder, arms trafficking, prostitution, human trafficking, extortion, counterfeiting and, to a lesser extent, home invasion robberies. History The 14K was formed by Kuomintang Lieutenant-General Kot Siu-wong in Guangzhou, China in 1945 as an anti-Communist action group. However, the group relocated to Hong Kong in 1949 when the Kuomintang fled from the Communists following the Chinese Civil War. Originally there were fou ...
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Fourteener
In the mountaineering parlance of the Western United States, a fourteener is a mountain peak with an elevation of at least . The 96 fourteeners in the United States are all west of the Mississippi River. Colorado has the most (53) of any single state; Alaska is second with 29. Many peak baggers try to climb all fourteeners in the contiguous United States, one particular state, or another region. __TOC__ Qualification criteria The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways: #Topographic elevation is the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level.All elevations in the 48 contiguous United States include an elevation adjustment from the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29) to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). For further information, please see this United States National Geodetic Surveybr>noteIf the elevation or prominence of a summit is calculated as a range of values, the arithmetic mean is shown. #Topo ...
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14K (Death Race)
The ''Death Race'' series is a car combat Media franchise, franchise encompassing a series of films and other media centered on a reality show set in a prison, where inmates race against each other in order to win their freedom. Films ''Death Race 2000'' (1975) ''Death Race 2000'' is a 1975 cult action film. In the near future, the ultimate sporting event is the Death Race. Contestants score points for running people down as they speed across the country. The sport has crazed fans who sacrifice themselves to the drivers. A covert group is trying to bring an end to the immoral Death Race and has infiltrated one of their followers into the race as a navigator of the top driver. In the end, the lives of the competitors, the President and the Death Race itself are in peril. The screenplay was based on the short story "The Racer" by Ib Melchior.Bosnan, John & Nichols, Peter "Death Race 2000" in Clute, John & Nichols, Peter eds. (1998) ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'' (2nd editi ...
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